I21 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: I21

Analysis of Education

Topics in the Economics of Education

This course will cover selected topics in the economics of educatio...

Andrew Hill

Graduate Training

Online Course: Topics in the Economics of Education

This course will cover selected topics in the economics of educatio...

ERSA

Online Course

Consumer Preferences for Genetically Modified Organisms in Cape Town: A Choice Experime...

This paper reports a study done on Cape Town consumers, with the ai...

Herbert Ntuli, Benjamin Dovey

Working Paper

Gender and Birth Order Effects on Intra-Household Schooling Choices and Educational Att...

Many schooling decisions take place within the family. For instance...

Fredrick M. Wamalwa, Justine Burns

Policy Brief

Teacher human capital, teacher effort and student achievements in Kenya

Although research generally shows that teachers matter for student ...

Justine Burns, Fredrick M. Wamalwa

Policy Brief

Gender and birth order effects on intra-household schooling choices and education attai...

In this paper, we investigate the effect of two important family ch...

Justine Burns, Fredrick M. Wamalwa

Working Paper

Private schools and student learning achievements in Kenya

This papers examines the effect of private schools on literacy and ...

Fredrick M. Wamalwa, Justine Burns

Policy Brief

Birth order effects on education attainment and child labour: Evidence from Lesotho

Education (both school enrolment and achievement) is low in much of...

Ramaele Moshoeshoe

Policy Brief

Birth Order Effects on Educational Attainment and Child Labour: Evidence from Lesotho

This paper examines the e ffect of birth order on educational attai...

Ramaele Moshoeshoe

Working Paper

College Major Choice, Spatial Inequality and Elite Formation: Evidence from South Africa

This paper explores the determinants of college major choice in the...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Policy Brief

The Dinaledi intervention programme in Eastern Cape schools

The study seek to examine the relationship between educational inpu...

Thobeka Ncanywa

Working Paper

Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Class Size on Educational Achievement in Lesotho

Understanding class size effects on educational achievement remains...

Ramaele Moshoeshoe

Working Paper

The state of the Eastern Cape schools in a period almost the second decade of democracy

This paper explores the state of the Eastern Cape schools by employ...

Thobeka Ncanywa

Working Paper

The Effects of Teacher Strike Activity on Student Learning in South African Primary Sch...

This paper investigates whether teacher strikes affect student achi...

Gabrielle Wills

Policy Brief

Determinants of Student Satisfaction with Campus Residence Life at a South African Univ...

Although there are a number of studies on the determinants of gener...

Sarah Radloff, Vivian de Klerk, Jen D. Snowball, Ferdi Botha

Working Paper

School quality

Policy Paper 06 Achieving high levels of school quality is difficul...

Charles Simkins

Policy Paper

Measuring the impact of educational interventions on the academic performance of academ...

This paper analyses the impact of educational interventions made in...

Vimal Ranchhod, Leonard C. Smith

Policy Brief

English Language Proficiency and Earnings in a Developing Country: The Case of South Af...

In this paper we explore the relationship between English language ...

Dorrit Posel, Daniela Casale

Working Paper

Climate Change Disaster Management: Mitigation and Adaptation in a Public Goods Framework

This paper explores the collective action problem as it relates to ...

Åsa Löfgren, Reviva Hasson, Martine Visser

Working Paper

The Economic Origins of Twentieth Century Decolonisation in West Africa

This paper argues that the pattern of decolonisation in West Africa...

Julius A. Agbor

Working Paper

Returns to Schooling: Skills Accumulation or Information Revelation?

This paper explores the degree to which imperfect information in th...

Ssekabira Ntege, Steven F. Koch

Working Paper

Orphanhood and Schooling in South Africa: Trends in the vulnerability of orphans betwee...

Using 11 nationally representative surveys conducted between 1993 a...

Cally Ardington

Working Paper

Schooling as a Lottery: Racial Differences in School Advancement in Urban South Africa

This paper develops a stochastic model of grade repetition to analy...

Murray Leibbrandt, David Lam, Cally Ardington

Working Paper